by jeff | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
My wife and I celebrated being in our new house for a year last month. Overall, I would say it’s been a great experience. We have great neighbors, and the floorplan works for us. We’ve talked about what we would change and there aren’t too many things we would do...
by jeff | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shenanigans are afoot in my neighborhood. Normally, I’m all in on the shenanigans. But this time, I wasn’t involved. And worse, my neighbors think I did it! Someone put this zen gnome under the bench in our little neighborhood park. And given my...
by jeff | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last week I wrote about dressing up like a bear and stealing ice cream. Little did I know how much that was going to come back and bite me. As some of you have pointed out, this is Fat Bear Week. And well, I sort of resemble a fat bear, even without the costume. ...
by jeff | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Twenty years ago this past week, my first novel, Trolley Dodgers was published. Since then, I’ve gone on to fame and fortune, had all my books turned into movies, and have a summer home on the Mediterranean Sea. Just kidding! None of that happened. Instead,...
by jeff | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
I was in Kohl’s this weekend and I had no idea they had changed their checkout system to a medieval torture maze to extract every last dollar from their customers. I’ve seen these before at places like At Home and Cost-Plus World Market. But Kohl’s has joined the...